Viada Producciones

A country boy tries to find his place in Buenos Aires. He goes to live with his cousin in the outer suburbs and works as a parapalos ("pin setter") in one of the city's last hand-operated bowling alleys.

One day in 1930, José Américo Ghezzi ("Bepo")—an unemployed anarchist stonemason—leaves his hometown, not to return until 1955. For twenty-five years, he wanders with no direction other than the path of the railway tracks, joining the silent world of the *crotos*—itinerant laborers—where he meets "the Frenchman," a mentor who leaves an indelible mark on his life. Back home, his friends and a woman await him, weaving the fabric of their own lives. Sixty years later, facing the camera, he relives his romances and his worldview in a kind of collage of perspectives and dreams, centered on the fundamental question: "Is freedom possible?"

Ani, an apprentice hairdresser who loses her job meets Danilo, a forty-something street scissors sharpener.

A unique case in Argentine cinema, this film isn't narrative; it questions the gaze and its impossibility of closing itself off, its inability to refer to anything beyond the visible. Arid and demanding, this unidentified audiovisual object affirms that stories are deceitful, that retinas are impregnated with images, and that, for that very reason, it's worthwhile to have a new perspective.